May 2012
21 posts
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We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?
– Edith Wharton (via misswallflower)
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last...
– Betty Smith (via misswallflower)
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each...
– John Steinbeck (via misswallflower)
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This hour too will be more lovely in recollection.
– Anna Kamienska (via laceofpearls)
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At one minute she had liked him tremendously—ah, she had nearly loved him. In...
– The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (via pavonis)
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Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we...
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via misswallflower)
April 2012
26 posts
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid… well, they’ve...
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via libraryland)
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to...
– Don Paterson, The Book of Shadows (via distantheartbeats)
All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be,...
– Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
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I want to leave this place
unremembered.
– Fanny Howe, from “The Cenotaph” (via proustitute)
I hate writing, I love having written.
– Dorothy Parker (via libraryland)
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that...
– Maurice Maeterlinck (via libraryland)
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A lot of you cared, just not enough.
– Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why (via todayithought)
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March 2012
30 posts
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.
– Kurt Vonnegut (via libraryland)